August 03, 2003
Grand Popo
Long weekend in Grand Popo, watching the waves flop onto the beach while catching up on our record-keeping.
Alas, the undertow here is too rough for swimming, and it's been suprisingly cold (ie 78-80 degrees) and windy since we arrived. Still, after three weeks in dry and dusty Mali, we're quite happy to spend a few days shivering on the sea shore. The obligatory holiday snap:
Nightlife here consists of watching the bats swoop around the pillars of the veranda at the Auberge. As we seem to have gotten the room without cable TV, internet access or a free minibar, we're forced to entertain ourselves with board games.
Inspired by Dave Irvine-Halliday and his colleagues at Light Up the World, we bought LED headlamps before leaving the US. They've come in handy when recording field notes at night. (We're saving the batteries on the LUTW lamps Dave sent with us for our village and NGO demos).
